The Year of the "No Respect" winner

I'm not here to be a homer and tell you the Bears are definitely going to win. Truth is I wouldn't put one penny on this game (anyone who has seen my playoff picks will attest to the fact that I should not be making any bets whatsoever). I can't tell you who will win. What I can tell you is that the "experts" are dead wrong. Lets look at the past year in all of sports just to show that the underdog is most likely the favorite nowadays.

2006 NCAA Tournament

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a college hoops nut. I root for SIU and anyone who is in their conference, The Valley. More to come after the Super Bowl on college bball though. Anyway, I, among many other people, was outraged when Billy "The Biggest Piece of Dogshit on TV" Packer and Jim Nantz chastised the selection committee chairman on Selection Sunday for taking four Valley teams. What happened? Two of them made the Sweet Sixteen and The Valley had the second most teams in that round. Nantz admitted he was wrong, Packer still claimed he was right, hence the "Dogshit" dubbing. And then there was George Mason. Final Four. And who honestly picked Florida to go to the Final Four, let alone win it all?
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2006 NBA Finals

The West was dominant, the East was weak. Now, it's hard to say that a team with Shaq and Dwayne Wade is and underdog, but they were. It was just like NFC-AFC: The best team in the East was not supposed to contend with the middle teams in the West. Outcome: Shaq tells Kobe to go fuck himself and hoists a trophy.
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2006 World Series

Same scenario: AL ruled, NL sucked donkey scrotum. The White Sox would have had the second best record in the NL, but finished third in their division. The Cardinals limped into the playoffs with 83 wins, which was good enough to win their pathetic division. St. Louis made it to the World Series and swept the heavily favored Tigers, even though the experts said that no NL team could contend with the middle AL teams.
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2006 & 2007 NCAA BCS Championship Game

In 2006 USC was still the toast of the College ranks. That is until Vince Young came along and had the game of his life. In 2007 Ohio State was Beauty and the Geek (their play being Beauty and their coach being the Geek) and went undefeated and there was much debate whether Florida should have even been playing them for the title. Florida rolled the Buckeyes. A lot of people say that nine times out of ten OSU would kick the shit out of the Gators, and they say the same about the match up from 2006. My point with this one is that in football it's one game: if the underdog plays well for one night they can win, even if they are the inferior team.
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The point of all this: conference play does not matter. Once you get to the dance you stand just as good of a chance as the other guy. In my mind this make the so called "experts" overrated. So don't count out the Bears just because they play in the NFC.













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No Respect!